Alabama Baptist Children's Homes and Family Ministries operate emergency and transitional shelters at various locations throughout the state to provide temporary homes and care for children while long-term plans are being determined.

Changed Lives Christian Center (CLCC) is a faith based ministry that offers transitional housing for men who are on their way to recover from homelessness, whether from the economic recession or other personal issues.

Family Promise of Birmingham is one of only 2 shelters in North Central Alabama that serves families consisting of:
•Husbands and wives with children
•Men with children
•Women with children- one must a be a male child 10 years or older
•Guardians with children

Pathways serves to meet the needs of homeless women and children in the Birmingham area. Pathways operates a downtown day center and three transitional shelters in downtown Birmingham, Southside, and Woodlawn.

Project Hope operates a drop-in day shelter and a street outreach program to help address the needs of at-risk, runaway and homeless children and teens in Birmingham. It is one of many projects carried on by the Alabaster, Alabama based Family Connection.

Aletheia House is a community-based organization that has been providing substance abuse treatment and prevention services to low-income individuals, and the communities in which they live, since 1972. It is one of Alabama’s largest providers of substance abuse treatment, substance abuse/HIV prevention, employment services and affordable housing.

The Committee to Protect the Homeless (CPH) is a grassroots organization created for the homeless by the homeless to bring justice and dignity to the homeless and indigent in Metropolitan Birmingham. Through advocacy, education, and the effective dissemination of information, CPH seeks to make social services more readily available to the homeless by improving coordination among service providers and informing the wider community of the complexity of the issues surrounding homelessness.

Equal Access Birmingham (EAB) is a student run-initiative in the Office of Undergraduate Medical Education of the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Through EAB, students engage in co-curricular service experiences with the underserved and vulnerable populations of Birmingham, AL. Services offered by EAB include health screenings, community health education initiatives, and free medical clinics.

Gateway is a multi-service agency for at risk families and youth. Services offered include family counseling, debt counseling and consolidation, domestic violence intervention and prevention, residential therapeutic foster care, and transitional living programs for children and young adults.

Through a variety of crisis prevention and intervention programs, Family Connection is dedicated to building positive futures for the community’s most vulnerable population. Each year, Family Connection serves children, teens and families through it's residential youth shelter, school counseling and family support groups, community crisis assistance for youth, day shelter and homeless outreach, and drug prevention education.

King’s Home serves youth, women, mothers and children seeking refuge, hope and help from abuse, neglect, abandonment, homelessness and other extreme and difficult circumstances. The program operates 18 Christ-centered homes in Jefferson, Shelby, and Tuscaloosa County.

M-Power Ministries operates a number of seasonal & short-term projects, financial assistance programs, and three major ongoing ministries: M-Power Health Center – The only free acute care medical and dental clinic in Jefferson County, M-Power Literacy – The largest adult literacy program in Alabama, and M-Power Education Center – an adult-education program that combines traditional academic and vocational instruction with a holistic resource management curriculum.

Oasis provides high-quality, affordable, mental health counseling to women who do not have adequate resources to obtain care from private practitioners. Oasis fills a critical gap in care for these women with limited incomes who could not otherwise afford vital mental health services.

The mission of Shelby Emergency Assistance is to provide for the basic needs of people in crisis in Shelby County, helping them achieve self-sufficiency and empowering them to make positive contributions in their communities.

StandUp for Kids is a national non-profit
organization with the mission of helping homeless and at-risk youth age 21 and younger. The local programs are staffed largely by volunteers who go to the streets each week in order to find, stabilize and otherwise help homeless and street kids improve their lives.

For the distressed traveler, homeless families, victims of domestic violence, crime, abandonment or exploitation, Travelers Assistance offers assessment and counseling, links to appropriate services, reconnection to family or other means of support, travel planning and financial assistance.

The VA medical center in Birmingham offers a variety of supportive services to military veterans including individual and family counseling, mental health treatment, crisis intervention, and transitional housing.

This online resource guide for the homeless, provided by The CAP (City Action Partnership), contains a directory of links to local Birmingham agencies organized by type of need such as food, shelter, transportation, medical, and many more.

Shelter Plus Care (S+C) is a program designed to provide housing and supportive services on a long-term basis for homeless persons who have a serious mental illness, chronic problems with alcohol and/or drugs, or with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or related diseases), or any combination of those disabilities, who are living in places not intended for human habitation (e.g. streets) or in an emergency shelter.

One Roof began over 25 years ago as Metropolitan Birmingham Services
for the Homeless (MBSH), a networking group for agencies providing
services to persons experiencing homelessness. One Roof now serves as
Central Alabama’s coordinating body that the Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) terms the Homeless Continuum of Care. One Roof
also continues to advocate for the homeless, provide internal and
external education and serve as a networking group.